Cross-cultural adaptation of the Spanish version of the Swimming with Independent Measure (SWIM)
María Isabel Gaviña-Barroso, Soraya Pacheco-da-Costa, Isabel Rodríguez-Costa, Guillermo García-Pérez-de-Sevilla, Leticia Martínez-Caro, Beatriz Sánchez-Sánchez · 2026
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Description
María Isabel Gaviña-Barroso and colleagues adapt in 2026 a swimming ability scale for Spanish-speaking professionals who teach or treat children in the water. No validated Spanish tool existed for judging functional performance in aquatic settings across typical and atypical development.
Adaptation followed six standard phases, with two translators, two back-translators and a five-member expert panel. After two review rounds, most items counted as fully equivalent and agreement indices reached perfect scores. Pilot testing with 20 professionals supported clarity and relevance. The Spanish version now allows consistent aquatic assessment for programme planning, pending fuller reliability testing in larger groups.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | María Isabel Gaviña-Barroso, Soraya Pacheco-da-Costa, Isabel Rodríguez-Costa, Guillermo García-Pérez-de-Sevilla, Leticia Martínez-Caro, Beatriz Sánchez-Sánchez |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59244 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |